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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[April, 
B. lias added another important feature to his 
door. In the ordinary fastening with a bar, 
that may swing out horizontally and be in 
the way, and do injury by hitting persons 
passing near the swinging door. To avoid 
this, two pieces of iron are bent and placed 
over the bar above and below the middle 
bolt. These “ slots ” are long enough to 
allow the bar to swing enough to clear the 
wedges and no more. The door, with the 
improvements, is shown in the engraving. 
Another Wagon Jack. 
Mr. “ B. F. P.,” Southboro, Mass., has used 
a style of Jack for 14 years, with so much 
satisfaction, that he sends a description of it 
for our readers: “It costs very little; any 
one can make it; will lift any reasonable 
weight; stores in a small space, and is very 
easily carried from place to place with one 
hand, with wrench and box of axle grease on 
the bottom piece. These are enough to call 
it ‘ Ne Plus Ultra.’ ” The Jack thus described 
is shown in the accompanying engraving. 
for its entire length. Over this box, and in 
each coop, he has a simple “mother,” made 
of boards, with a fringe of cloth suspended 
on the edge. As a result, the chicks, instead 
of climbing over each other, settle down on 
the warm cover of the box.” The construc¬ 
tion is easily understood from the engraving. 
A New Riveting Set. 
Mr. Edward E. Eyles, Allegheny Co., Pa., 
sends a sketch of a 
riveting set, and 
describes it as fol¬ 
lows: “A piece of 
gas pipe, 3*/a inches 
long, is obtained, 
and also a solid steel 
rod, 4'/ a inches long, 
that will fit nicely 
within the gas pipe, 
when the ‘set’ is 
ready for use. Put 
the end of the gas 
pipe on the bar, 
holding it with the 
left hand, and strike 
the extending steel 
rod with a hammer 
in the right hand.” 
The accompanying 
illustration shows 
the ‘ riveter ’ and 
the manner of hold¬ 
ing it when in use. 
It will doubtless be 
found very conveni¬ 
ent to many who have much riveting to do. 
Tim Bunker on Advertising. 
An Artificial “Mother” for Chickens. 
A drawing of a “Mother” for chickens, 
from which our engraving is made, was sent 
by Mr. J. A. Bailey, Denver Co., Col. He 
writes: “I have often heard of artificial 
mothers for young chicks, nearly all of them 
give heat from above by means of a vessel 
filled with hot water. Complaints from those 
who have used them have been numerous; 
some of the chicks are crushed by others that 
are trying to get up nearer the source of heat, 
and they also frequently die of diarrhoea. 
One of my acquaintances has improved on 
the system of warming chicks in this way : 
he has a tin box about six feet long by a foot 
wide, and six inches deep ; this is set in the 
ground. Under one end of the box he has a 
coal-oil stove for heating the water with 
which the box is filled. Only a smal’ amount 
oi heat is necessary to keep the box warm 
Mr. Editor :—We have had up the ques¬ 
tion in our Farmer’s Club, “ Does it it pay a 
farmer to advertise ?” and it has brought out 
some rather curious experiences. Mr. Spooner, 
who sticks to the Club about as close as he 
does to his text in the pulpit, opened the 
question. He said, in discussing this ques¬ 
tion, a good deal depends upon who the 
farmer is, what he has to advertise, and 
where he advertises. A good many farmers 
do not look far beyond their own doors for a 
market for everthing they 
have to sell. They calculate 
to raise enough to eat and 
drink, and want to barter 
enough at the store to pay 
for groceries, clothes, and 
raise a little money to pay the 
hired man, interest money, 
and taxes. If they brought 
the year round square, they 
were pretty well satisfied. 
Now, unless a farmer has 
some ambition to get ahead 
in fife, to keep out of debt, 
and have a bank account, it 
is no use to advertise. If he 
has nothing but wood to sell, 
for fuel, and only one market to which he can 
haul it, it is waste of printer’s ink to advertise. 
The first requisite in advertising, is to have 
something in considerable quantity to sell, 
and the more rare and better the article, the 
better it will pay to make your goods known. 
Uncle Jotham Sparrowgrass, who lived in 
his early days over on the east end of Long 
Island, and had some experience there which 
Jie is fond of quoting, said, “I don’t like to 
differ from Mr. Spooner on anything, but my 
experience in advertising rare things differs 
considerable from his, and I can’t agree with 
him in this. About thirty years ago there 
was a great noise about Chinese Yam, or 
Dioscorea Batatas, as the nurserymen called 
it. Well, I bought some of them, raised them 
easy enough, and advertised them in the 
‘Sag Harbor Trumpet’ all one season. I 
didn’t make a fortune that year. Nobody 
seemed to know what the thing was, how to- 
raise it, or whether it was good for anything. 
Arter you’d raised it, I could hardly give ’em. 
away. So you see, unless folks knew some¬ 
thing about the crop you raise, and know 
enough to want it, the more you advertise- 
the worse you are off. I never heard the Iasi 
of them Chinese Yams,” said Uncle Jotham. 
as he sat down, “and if I should go over to- 
Southold now, the first question they would 
ask would be, ‘ How’s Yams ?’ ” 
Deacon Smith said, “I have always found- 
that advertising paid about as well as any 
other investment in farming. It is of little- 
use to raise crops for market unless you know 
what the demand of the market is, and what 
is likely to pay fairly when it is raised. There- 
is a wide range of farm products that pay. 
outside of those that come in competition, 
with the prairies. It does not pay to raise- 
grain beyond home wants, for Western grain 
is in every Eastern market, and is likely to- 
stay there. Of course it does not pay to ad¬ 
vertise anything that a farmer cannot raise 
with profit. But the finished products of the 
farm, fine fruits and vegetables, gilt-edged but¬ 
ter, thoroughbred stock, horses, cattle, sheep, 
swine, poultry, it pays to raise, and to adver¬ 
tise. And it does not make much difference- 
where a man lives, if it is only near a steam¬ 
boat or a depot, about the selling of food or 
stock, if he will advertise. Hookertown is- 
just as near the center of profitable trade as 
Boston or New York. Some kinds of stock 
that I raise goes to the Mississippi Valley, and 
so long as the purchaser pays the expense of 
transportation, I am as well paid as if I sold 
in Shadtown. Advertising gives me a hundred 
customers where I should find only one, if I 
did not use printer’s ink.” 
Jake Frink said he never made a fool of 
himself but once, and that was when he ad¬ 
vertised “ Black Cats For Sail ” in the “ Hook¬ 
ertown Gazette.” He said, “I read a piece 
in the paper once, that black cats’ skins were 
worth a dollar a piece, as many as you could 
bring on. If that was the case, I thought I 
would go to raisin’ on ’em. I kalculated that 
I could have a hundred breedin’ cats about 
my old barn, and they would easily bring 
tew litters in a year, and I could raise a 
thousand black cats. Polly could tend ’em, 
you know, and the cats could get the most of 
their living at the slaughter-house close by. 
Polly was in for the job, and to make the 
market sure I advertised. I did not plow so- 
much as common that year, ’cause I felt sure 
of a thousand dollars in the fall, when the 
cats’ skins were sold. The cats bred well 
enough, but some Jacob seemed to have been 
round, and they came out ringed, streaked and 
speckled, and about as many colors, as kit¬ 
tens. I stopped the advertisement as soon as 
I could, but the scrape cost me twenty dol¬ 
lars, and before the few black kittens were 
half grown, the man that wanted the skins 
failed in business, and Jake Frink began to 
git lite. I have not advertised enny, sense.”' 
This chapter from the experience of Hook- 
